연결어미 {-느라고}의 형성과정에 대한 연구

The Formation Process of Connecting Ending ‘-nulako’ shown in the 19th Century

  This paper is concerned with investigating the formation process of connecting ending, {-nulako} indicating [reason, cause] in modern Korean language. The semantic function of {-nulako} can be understood in terms of [PURPOSE], [SIMULTANEITY], and [REASON]. The meanings are divided by the relationship between the event time of preceding clause and succeeding clause. The {-nulako} seems to have been formed by combining {-nola} indicating [simultaneity] with complementizer [-ko]. This can be confirmed by the appearance of {-nolako} in most of the earlier literatures where the {-nulako} was first shown up, and by the pan-linguistic observation of semantic extension of [simultaneity] to [reason] from the perspective of grammaticalization.